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What else?
What else could I do? write? sing? create?
If a kid doesn't understand, what else could I do to help?
I'm a wife, grandmother, mom, sister, teacher, teacher, teacher.
I wonder, but wonder was taken already. So, what else?

http://flic.kr/p/eCqVpf As always, our Fellowship of the Open Spokes inspires me to reflect on improving the learning and teaching in my classroom. This week’s topic is failure, and that has far-reaching implications for both students and teachers. Please look at…

failure.003, a photo by teach.eagle on Flickr. Open Spokes Challenge Topic: Failure “The language we use is important, and so I think it is important that we have these discussions to tease-out what we mean, and as Varena says, create…

For week four, I wrote learning goals using the provided template for a project I have started with my sixth grade students which we will continue next fall, hopefully in grades 6, 7, and 8. I will share this “Share…

Just have to get this out. This is how kids feel, and what kids want in school: the chance to learn by making. Really, that’s how I’ve learned to write and how to do anything. It’s so interesting, exciting, engaging,…

This week our Open Spokes Fellowship discusses a series of questions. I add but a few ideas to those of my colleagues who are so much wiser than I. Today, I answer thus: How do you reconcile the fact that…

Another task to keep me learning: Teach the Web by Mozilla. I may not be able to do everything, but I have already started with my students. During our Genius Project time, we are learning code through the THIMBLE projects:…

Something awesome is happening on a new channel in YouTube. Ben Wilkoff has gathered together a few everyday educators who are sharing weekly vlogs about education, a direct result of ETMOOC. This week we’re discussing what education might look like in…

Twenty-seven years ago, after a wonderful lab school experience with plenty of practical experience at Eastern Washington University, I ventured into my own classroom to teach the subjects required in projects filled with language learning. I felt confident and competent,…

How do you plan on staying connected to the people and the ideas? This unfinal post for #etmooc reviews the path I now take with others to continue the journey: #etmooc continues to drop it’s pebble of ideas into the…

Who owns our data? Our School Our school encourages in our daily work and curricula a continuous emphasis on digital citizenship and digital safety; we practice citizenship in our classrooms, virtual and in reality. This discussion and practice we hope…

Think… If you are connected to and participating in a personal learning network, then you understand the culture of today’s connected and public world. Perhaps you have created lessons and projects using Google Docs, a Wiki, or Twitter to collaborate…

We’re on our way to 5 adventure stories. Enjoy our presentation (here’s how we started- Adventure Collaboration ). Who are we? @gallit_z @MsLHall @lindapemik @mrsdkrebs @grammasheri Imagine your own story as you flip through the slides 1-6. On slide seven…

As I tinker I’m a thinker; Thinking how and where and why. As a thinker my mind tinkers; Thinking try and risk and learn. If a teacher leads the learners Learning with them: create, share, revise. Then our learners lead…

Puzzles and Kaleidoscopes. I loved putting together puzzles and making the parts pop into life I pushed that last piece in. And as I got older I my favorite puzzles where word games — the crytograms. I felt like I was…

Goals for #etmooc, reviewed: As I embarked on this journey in #etmooc , I asked these questions: Given the access, technology, resources, and requirements available to me, how can I create a classroom world reflective of what my students need in…

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Read within these posts a technology journey in a middle school language arts media class as well as my own professional development through tech play.

Technology is a tool to expand one’s connections in the world, build learning communities, and empower others to do the same. It can be welcoming, inclusive, and collaborative as well as a vehicle for learning about the world together.